The more than 1,200 miles of shores in the southern U.S. that line the Gulf of Mexico are no stranger to strong storms -- but that doesn't make potential damage from an approaching cyclone any less likely. As Hurricane Ian marches closer to the U.S., its ...

Perdido Key is a little-known town on Florida's Gulf Coast. The beaches here are exceptionally clean and pretty, but there are plenty of other things to see and do in this charming vacation destination.

Thirty oil companies, including Chevron, Shell and BP, paid the United States Department of the Interior around $279 million in bids to lease land across the Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America, despite pushback against the sale from Florida’s entire ...

TAMPA, Fla. -- A Florida man has been hospitalized after contracting a life-threatening flesh-eating bacteria while fishing out in the Gulf of Mexico. ABC affiliate WFTS reports Mike Walton is being treated at Tampa General Hospital for flesh-eating ...

Perdido Key State Park offers great access to gorgeous white sand beaches, picnicking, swimming, fishing, and birdwatchi

WASHINGTON — Oil companies offered $300 million for drilling rights in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday in the first of 30 sales planned for the region under Republican efforts to ramp up U.S. fossil fuel production. The sale came after President Donald ...

In the race to out-MAGA one another, Texas is now on its back foot after the Florida Department of Transportation removed all the road signs for Gulf of Mexico Drive from one beachside town last month. More impressively, the 10-mile stretch of road on ...